A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows a close contest in presidential election preferences, with Republicans lining up behind Donald Trump as their party’s presumptive nominee while the continued Democratic race is keeping Hillary Clinton’s side more unsettled.

Greater voter registration among Republicans is one factor: Clinton’s 6-point lead among all adults, 48-42 percent in a general election matchup, switches to essentially a dead heat among registered voters, 46 percent for Trump, 44 percent for Clinton. Regardless, the contest has tightened considerably since March, when Clinton led among registered voters by 9 points.

What should worry Democrats most is Trump’s gain with millennial voters.
Trump is now in a virtual dead heat with Hillary with voters 18-29 years old.That’s a 36 point swing in one month!

RedAlert Politics reported: Clinton’s support among young voters ages 18 to 29 has dropped 19 percent since March — and Trump has gained 17 percent support from the same demographic. That’s a 36 percent swing.

Rush Limbaugh said today Trump’s strategy has been amazingly effective with millennials who never heard of the Clinton sex scandals.
Via the Rush Limbaugh Show:

RUSH: You know, I’ll tell you the way to look at this. You really want to know how to look at this? As far as the Millennials are concerned, Donald Trump is running negative ads about Hillary — or is Donald Trump doing the job the American media refuses to do? Is Donald Trump telling people who don’t know things, things they don’t know, that the media won’t tell ’em, or is he engaged in just smears? And I think the odds are it’s gonna be seen as the opposite. I think it’s gonna be seen as Trump doing the job the American media and the Republican Party won’t do.

Look, folks, I predicted long ago that Millennials would be appalled to learn about the Clintons’ past. To me, that’s a no brainer. Especially women Millennials and how Trump is reaching out to them, educating them. By the way, according to that ABC/Washington Post poll yesterday, Trump has just swung a lot of Millennials over to his side. It’s a 36% swing. Now, “Clinton’s support among young voters 18 to 29 has dropped 19% since March, and Trump has gained 17% support from the same demographic group, a 36% swing among Millennials.”

Here’s another: What is so wrong about people being reminded of the legitimate past of Bill and Hillary Clinton? You know what? The reason why people are shocked and go, “Oh!” is because the media wouldn’t do it. Way back in the nineties when the media wouldn’t do it, a message is conveyed that it would be improper to discuss these things. “After all, the man is our president of the United States, and his wife tried to save every American with health care! It’d be terribly bad form to do this.” The media wouldn’t report on it.

That conveys a message that it would be uncool to talk about these things. But what is so wrong about people being reminded of the Clinton past — or, in some cases, being told about it for the first time? I mean, is anything in the past ever out of bounds for a Republican candidate? The media go back 25, 30 years. The media will quote sources that are 20, 25 years old (that have personal grudges and so forth) in their efforts to destroy Republicans. When it comes to the Clintons, no reporting of any of this stuff ever went on.

That conveys the message: We shouldn’t discuss it. So Trump comes along and discusses it, and people of a certain age say, “Oh, oh, oh! We’re not supposed to. We’re not supposed to talk about this. Ooh, ooh,” and they get the vapors. But Millennials and other young people say, “Whoa, whoa, whoa! What’s this? Whoa, whoa, whoa! We didn’t know this.” Now, it’s hard for people to think that people don’t know this.

They don’t know, and the Drive-Bys clearly are not gonna tell them. We heard claims about Mitt Romney giving noogies to freshmen in high school, and putting his dog on the roof of the car. We don’t hear a thing about the Clintons’ past.

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